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'Bout time the Horns beat LSU in beisbol.....it's been a minute 

I'd like to have seen the defense not play sloppy in the Sunday game, but I don't think it mattered to the outcome.  Cleaning up the dropped double-play ball and the misplayed RF fly wouldn't have won the game, but it was still irritating and disappointing.  Hopefully the young guys will benefit from experience of playing a good team on the road. 

Pitching depth wasn't exhausted, they're just not that good.  They have good Friday ace, a good closer, and one high quality bullpen guy who I think should be moved into the Sunday starter role at this point, and I disagree with CJJ keeping him in the pen.  Getting Guidry back would be/will be huge, if he gets back to form.....that would give us another legit weekend starter. 

The problem I fear is that for as long as I've been paying attention to injury recoveries to pitchers.....every time we hear about this "week to week"....."we expect him back any time now"....."it's just a matter of him getting that final 2%" blah blah blah.......it goes on and on into the end of the season and they're out way longer than anybody ever admitted, and they're never "back."  I don't know if Guidry is ever going to be a real option.

Oh well.  No shame in losing to a top 10 team on the road, but I suspect this is just an okay team.  

Another top 10 series starts tonight with LSU @ OU.

OU's G1 starter has better stats than any of our pitchers.  That said, he hasn't faced a lineup like LSU's yet.  

We keep getting these top 10 teams on the road.  Need some of these in the more friendly confines of The Box 

OU has a pitcher named James Hitt, who held LSU hitless in his three innings of work. 

I lolz'd.  

Sounds like a better name for a linebacker, rather than a pitcher.

Reminds me of one of my favorite Longhorn safeties, named Quentin Jammer.

I believe Jammer was from here. Angleton kid as I recall. I know several of his family members. 

SEC baseball has been excellent for a long time.  It's even tougher now with Texas and OU.

On the flipside, we might see the SEC get 8 or 10 of the 16 regionals...

I don't know how good OU is, but they were ranked in the top ten at game time, and I found this stat which I would not have guessed:  This was the first time LSU has swept a top ten team on the road since 1997 when they took down #7 UT in Knoxville. 

I don't have any stats on this, but I can say I don't personally remember any other conference series where LSU allowed no earned runs, or used just 5 pitchers. 

The flip side is that I don't think LSU has many great options outside of those 5, and also 1 or 2 of them pitched out of their minds and I'm not sure that's sustainable.  Also, OU kind of gifted us game 3 with some errors.  

One guy who covers us wrote prior to the season that the schedule was a lighter slate than last year.  But as it has turned out, 3 of LSU's first 4 SEC opponents were ranked in the top 10 at the time we played them.  Next up is Auburn, who's middle of the pack, but they just took 2 of 3 from #8 Alabama, then we host Alabama, followed by Tennessee, a previous #1 before falling to the Aggies, the same Aggies LSU will play after that.  Followed by #2 Arkansas which just demolished Mizzou. 

Fun times.  I think the batters are ready.  Not sold on the pitching.